Graduation dress o (◡‿◡✿)

I finally graduated from high school and of course I had to make my own graduation dress (^_^;) I usually prefer warm colors such as red or yellow over cold colors, but this time I decided to make the dress green. Or more specifically dip dyed dress from white/creme to darkgreen.

 Before I went buying the fabrics for the dress I already knew the fabric I imagined didn't exist, at least not in the fabric stores near me, so I had no choice but to dye the fabric myself. I was really worried about the dyeing fabric because I had never dyed before and the fabric I was suppose to dye was polyester chiffon, so I wasn't sure if the color would be dark enough.

 for dying I used tropical green and olive green from Dylon

As I had expected the colors didn't come out as dark as I wanted. tropical green was okay, but I would've wanted olive green to be darker. Much darker. But I can't blame the colors for that, they were easy to use and and did their job. It was because of the polyester. But I didn't manage to find any seethrough fabrics that would have been 100% cotton, or at least 50% cotton... ARGH

Anyways I continued making the dress with those fairylike fabrics o (◡‿◡✿) 

I don't have many pictures of the progress because I tend to get so into sewing that I forget to take them :D so here's the pictures of the dress when it is almost finished. I later added white lacy ribbon under the lightgreen ribbon.

And finally pictures of me wearing my graduation dress in my graduations Ｏ(≧▽≦)Ｏ (for some reason it looks white in the pictures, but it's clearly light green in person XD)

Asuna and kirito (kob) WIP

To-Do-List
⌀ belt
⌀ Finish shoes
⌀ Finish armor/breastplate
⌀SWORD!
⌀stockings (almost done)

☆☆Finished☆☆

✓Vest
✓skirt
✓wig
✓armband
✓white skirt (under the vest)
✓gloves

I have been a bit busy so Asuna has had to wait a little. But luckily I wasn't able to put asuna aside completely which means that I have made some progress with her  (⌒▽⌒)☆

First asuna's wig. I adjust the braids a little and now it looks million times better ^___^

Then I made the armbands and gloves:

Making pattern for the armband

Armbands still missing the golden lines.. and blogger won't let me put a picture where  the golden lines are -_____-

 how I see my gloves  (*´・ｖ・)

And how my bf see my gloves... XD
(those little creatures are from moomin and they are called Hattivatti)

I have almost finished stockings but I forgot to take pictures of them (〃￣ω￣〃ゞ silly me...

And shoes! I like how the shoes look like and I'm anxiously waiting to finish them, BUT.... I still haven't found grey ribbon so I'll have to wait. Put here are pictures of the shoes so far:

Enough with asuna. I'm also making kirito's Knight of the blood oath costume for my bf and the cloak is almost finished ♥～(‘▽^人) Here take a look

I NEED TO IRON THIS SO BAD XDD

Asuna and wig ♥（ﾉ´∀`）

I haven't really made any progress. I shortened the skirt but otherwise I've done nothing. Mainly the reason is the lack of materials. I went various local stores to buy buckle and grey ribbon, But I didn't find what I was looking for. (,,#ﾟДﾟ)  so.. I'm unable to continue Asuna.. 

Luckily I'm going to the bigger city weekend and hopefully I find all the things I need there. After the following weekend I'm also starting to make Kirito's Knight of the blood oath costume, so more WIP's coming ☆

To-Do-List
⌀ belt
⌀ add lining to the white thing under the vest XD
⌀ Finish shoes
⌀ Finish armor
⌀stockings
⌀make gloves
⌀make armbands
⌀SWORD!

☆☆Finished☆☆

✓Vest
✓skirt
✓wig 

I got Asunas wig I ordered few weeks ago and I'm in love with it! My favorite wig so far ♥♥♥  think the color is perfect for Asuna and the quality of the wig is excellent. It doesn't shine too much but is still very smooth and realistic.

I need to adjust braids a little UPUPUP

AAAH I want my hair to be that long (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ XDD 

I also tested some make up, I think I may have to do another test. I'm not completely happy with how the eyes look like. I also want to buy orange contactlenses for this cosplay, but because of my poor eyesight I might not be able to find suitable ones ;____; 

Dirty mirror

☆☆ASUNA WIP☆☆

I managed to finish the vest-thingie☆☆☆☆  ☆*:.｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆ so happyy

close-up

I'm very pleased with the final result. I like the fabric choice and I like the fact I chose to do those red details from satin ribbon instead of normal cotton ribbon (which doesn't shine). The vest has a hidden zipper at the left side. though if I had to do this again i'd probably put the zipper at the back of the vest. Because now it's a bit hard to put on and if I had bigger head, I wouldn't be able to put it on...

Then I started to do the shoes and breast armor for Asuna. I still haven't finished them, but hopefully next week I'm able to do so.

 I need to put the grey outlines to the armor and also color two crosses grey and attach them to the armor. I might also apply color to the armor itself to make it look not-so-soft XD This is the first armor I have ever made >__< the armor is made out of craft foam. I was happily surprised how easy it is to work with! I'm really looking forward to see how this ends up 

For Asuna's shoes I used some old boots I had lying in my closet. I had once used them in a cosplay, but I hated them so bad. I completely failed to alter the shoes back then and they ended up looking horrible. The white paint was peeling off with every step and (╯ಊ╰) so horrible...

I cut the shoes and made the tip of the shoe a bit rounder. After that I made the pattern for the shoecovers. I pinned some fabric on top of the shoe and drew lines with pencil where the pins were.

First pin the random fabric and then draw the lines

Then you should end up with the patterns :)

Shoes when the shoecovers weren't attached and

 the same shoes when I had sewn them and hot glued the bottom part.

To-Do-List
⌀ make belt
⌀ add lining to the white thing under the vest
⌀ Finish shoes
⌀ Finish armor
⌀stockings
⌀shorten skirt
⌀style wig 
⌀make gloves
⌀make armbands
⌀SWORD!

☆☆Finished☆☆

✓Vest

As you can see I still have a lot to do... ☆￣(＞。☆)  

Sword Art Online - Asuna WIP

Asuna Yuuki

It was at least six months ago (or even longer ago) when my boyfriend suggested that we should cosplay Asuna and Kirito from Sword Art Online. Back then I didn't know anything about SAO and I had to google those characters to know what they looked like. I wasn't that thrilled about their outfits, but I thought I could do it if I liked the anime (I can't cosplay a character if I don't know anything about it, which means I have to watch the anime or read the manga, the character is in, in order to cosplay it.) After I had watch couple episodes of SAO it was clear that my next cosplay was going to be Asuna. I loved the anime and  Asuna's personality (｡♥‿♥｡)

patterns in size 1:4

materials (thin red ribbon not in the picture)

I started with the red skirt, mainly because I already had the fabric for it. (I purchased all the other equipment later) The skirt was normal pleated skirt and I managed to get it done quite fast. The most time consuming thing in the skirt was to iron the pleats. But if I have to mention just one thing I have learned in sewing, it is that ironing makes everything look at least 10 times better (｡･ω･｡) so ironing is a must.

making pleats

Finished skirt !! 

When the skirt was done I started doing the vest part ( I'm not sure if it's a vest put I shall call it that XD) Making a pattern for it was hard, I constantly changed it a little and in the end my patterns were all messy. But at least they worked! 

Ah those messy patterns.

How it looked when I had sewn some red ribbon
(I looked too tired, therefore the duck. DUCKFACE)

All the thick red ribbon in, time for thin red ribbon

BTW it took overall 14 m of red ribbon

the outfit, how it looks and how it should look.

So that's everything I have done so far. next I'm going to make the shoes and armor and add details to the vest (●´∀｀●)

SHINY PHONE ☆☆ きらきら (and cupcake)

I was so happy when the cellphone stickers I ordered finally came!  (☆^O^☆) I couldn't wait to give a new look for my cellphone

Ain't they pretty? 

Before I started re-decorating my cellphone, it looked ugly... the old stickers had been there for an year and some  rhinestones were fallen off. And the rest of the rhinestones were worn out...  I also wanted to change the color of my phone from baby pink to violet.

Not-so-pretty

I ripped all the old cellphone stickers off and applied new cellphone stickers. It took me around two hours to make it because I mixed rhinestones from three different sticker-thingies which you can see at the beginning of the post. I also used some rhinestones from my old sticker-thingies I had  XD (I don't know how to describe it better)

poor little phone

gotta love the instructions

And phone's final look ^___^ I'm very pleased with it

SHINY PHONE ☆☆ きらきら

At the end of the post I put a little cupcake  (⌒▽⌒)☆